Why The EU Urgently Needs A One-Year Delay For The IVDR And EU-Wide Exceptions For IVDs
Executive Summary
The medtech industry’s call for a one-year delay to the Medical Device Regulation and for EU-wide exceptions from usual medical device rules was granted recently. But not for IVDs, where the situation is described as “grim.”
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